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Our Services
We provide both victim and community based services.
For Victim Services, read on.
Click here for more on Community Services
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24 Hour Hotline
Our 24 hour toll-free Hotline features trained staff and volunteers who are able to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, information and resource referrals. |
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Emergency Shelter
REACH has an emergency shelter where women and their children may stay up to 3 months. This nine-bed home provides safe refuge in a confidential location for battered women and their children who flee their abusers.
Housing, welfare, employment and children's and parent's advocacy services are also provided by REACH's staff to shelter guests. |
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Legal Advocacy
Court-based advocacy programs are provided at the Waltham and Woburn District Courts, as well as other district courts in our region upon request. Services include: explanation of court procedures, advocating for women applying for restraining orders, and offering referrals to legal assistance agencies or other services when needed. |
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Support Groups
Weekly support groups are offered to women who were or are in abusive relationships. We offer daytime and evening support groups in several different communities. Free childcare is provided at all of these groups upon request.
Children's Therapy
We offer a comprehensive children's program which consists of counseling for children (living in our shelter and in surrounding communities), parent support and guidance, consultation and training.
Teen Dating and Violence Prevention Education
Access to resources for housing, employment, education, parenting
Counseling Services for parents/caregivers
Community Education Programs
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Who are our clients?
The demographics of REACH's clients have no boundaries. As the only DV shelter serving 27 communities west and north of Boston, many of our clients come from these areas as well as from throughout the State.
We assist, without discrimination, the young and the old, the poor and the affluent, victims without a high school diploma and those with college degrees, English and non-English-speaking victims in need, and people in the community who think they know someone who is being abused, but don't know how to reach out to help. It is likely - given the statistical realities - that everyone reading this document knows someone in critical need because of an abusive relationship.
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